Broadband and post-paid cellular services of private operators remain suspended. Schools, colleges, business establishments, petrol pumps, banks and private offices are also shut in much of Kashmir.

Top Army officer Lt General SK Dua briefed J &K Governor NN Vohra about the security situation in the valley and the preparedness of security forces to deal with any exigency. In Delhi, Union home minister Rajnath Singh reviewed the security situation in Kashmir and is understood to have given instructions officials to avoid casualties of both civilians and security personnel.

Violence also rocked Kashmir on Monday with a security officer and seven militants killed in separate incidents even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his Independence Day speech that India would not bow to terrorism and accused Pakistan of glorifying it. The last bout of serious violence in Kashmir was in 2010, when more than 100 people died in clashes.

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After PSU banks, the government is likely to infuse capital in two chronically ill telecom PSUs BSNL and MTNL, and the Union Cabinet is likely to take a decision on 4G spectrum allocation to them by the third week of the current month after DoT places the note before it for consideration.

At a high-level meeting at the PMO late Tuesday, it was also decided that the two telcos will frame a Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) to reduce their employee strength, which will be followed by a reduction in the retirement age to 58.